Release told Christian Today: "Inside, the bishop knelt to pray, ready to die. Miraculously, the gang just looted the house and left, without harming him."
Bishop Kwashi said he was not discouraged but would continue his work. He said: "I have decided that preaching the gospel is worth living for and it is worth dying for."
Release interviewed the Bishop after the previous attack on his home and wife. When asked how many times he had been threatened, he just laughed: "I don't know. I think I've lost count, but I can tell you that the first was when I was a priest at St Andrew's church in Zaria.
"This was 1986. I organised a massive gathering of Christians and over 15,000 people gathered at the polo field. I was saying that there is going to be death coming to the church, because there is a wave of Islamic religion that's coming that wants to exterminate the Christian faith.
"After that I got letters and threats saying that they were going to kill me. I first thought it was a joke."
However, on 18 February last year, attackers broke into the Bishop's house in Plateau State, determined to kill him. He was abroad at the time. So they took their revenge on his wife, assaulting her and beating her badly.
"Unfortunately my wife took my death on my behalf," said Bishop Kwashi. "She bore the shame, she bore the disgrace, the humiliation, and right now she is partially blind as a result. Her head was beaten badly so we suspect some form of glaucoma developed, and some things."
He added: "But I am grateful to God. My belief is until my time is up I will not die, so I'll continue to say what I know as a fact and truth and I will continue to stand on the gospel of Jesus Christ, because I have seen so much of the power of this gospel, so I am not in doubt that at the end of it all, the gospel will prevail.
"In this life we don't have anything else that is durable. Nothing will prevail, nothing will overcome, only the gospel and those who believe in the gospel."
A video interview is featured in the latest edition of World Update on the Persecuted Church, by Release International, available from www.releaseinternational.org
